Director/PDMR Shareholding

TO:      Regulatory Information Service                                    
                                                                           
         PR Newswire                                                       
                                                                           
RE:      Paragraph 3.1.4 of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules          

The notifications listed below were received under Paragraph 3.1.2 of the
Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

Diageo plc (the "Company") announces that it received notification on 1
December 2010 that the following directors and persons discharging managerial
responsibilities ("PDMR") had today received ordinary shares of 28 101/108
pence in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") upon the exercise of options under the
Diageo UK Sharesave Scheme 2000, as follows:

Name of Director    Grant Date           Option Price   No. of Ordinary Shares 
                                                                               
PS Walsh            13 October 2005      £6.53          2,465                  
                                                                               
Name of PDMR        Grant Date           Option Price   No. of Ordinary Shares 
                                                                               
NB Blazquez         13 October 2005      £6.53          493                    
                                                                               
AJ Fennell          13 October 2005      £6.53          1,479                  

As a result of these transactions, the interests of the director and PDMRs in
the Company's Ordinary Shares (excluding options, awards under the Company's
LTIPs and interests as potential beneficiaries of the Company's Employee
Benefit Trusts) have increased as follows:

Name of Director     No. of Ordinary Shares  
                                             
PS Walsh             666,239                 
                                             
Name of PDMR         No. of Ordinary Shares  
                                             
NB Blazquez          51,269                  
                                             
AJ Fennell           6,540                   

J Nicholls

Deputy Company Secretary

1 December 2010